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How Much of the Internet Is Fake?

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  1. Melody Bot Dec 27, 2018
    Melody Bot

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    Max Read, writing for New York Magazine:


    How much of the internet is fake? Studies generally suggest that, year after year, less than 60 percent of web traffic is human; some years, according to some researchers, a healthy majority of it is bot. For a period of time in 2013, the Times reported this year, a full half of YouTube traffic was “bots masquerading as people,” a portion so high that employees feared an inflection point after which YouTube’s systems for detecting fraudulent traffic would begin to regard bot traffic as real and human traffic as fake. They called this hypothetical event “the Inversion.”
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    Wonderful.

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  2. Chase Tremaine Dec 27, 2018
    Chase Tremaine

    Albums/EPs for free/pay-what-you-want on Bandcamp Supporter

    "Wonderful." Is this sarcasm? Does not compute. Cannot check box.
     
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  3. Ska Senanake Dec 27, 2018
    Ska Senanake

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    Who has a red pill for me?
     
  4. TerrancePryor Dec 28, 2018
    TerrancePryor

    https://mp3sandnpcs.com/ Prestigious

    Everything is fake from your Instagram followers to your YouTube subscribers. Nothing is real. Am I even real? I don't know.
     
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  6. Serenity Now Dec 28, 2018
    Serenity Now

    deliver us from e-mail Supporter

    If this is true, and the % of fake traffic continues to climb, simulation theory may one day be real
     
  7. The Lucky Moose Dec 28, 2018
    The Lucky Moose

    I'm Emotional, I Hug the Block Prestigious

    Jokes on them not even fake people want to follow me
     
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  8. Bayside 182 Dec 28, 2018
    Bayside 182

    Wolverine Supporter

    Well one thing is for sure, robots cannot distinguish which picture contains a street sign
     
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  9. mercury Dec 28, 2018
    mercury

    modern-day offspring fanatic Supporter

    they'll be able to soon! your captcha responses are used to tweak and test google's image recognition AI
     
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  10. Dust Of Fallen Rome Dec 30, 2018
    Dust Of Fallen Rome

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    Welcome to the matrix and shit. It's all fake but hey, I'll take a crap economy and rehashed film ideas over living in an underground city getting hunted by angry roombas with hose tentacles any day...
     
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  11. Dust Of Fallen Rome Dec 30, 2018
    Dust Of Fallen Rome

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    Seriously though, if corporations do log and track what people search, check this; there may be someone who has to trawl through what people jack off to every day.

    Whoever you are, person who caralogues weird millenial porn habits; you are a hero, you are loved and we feel you dawg...
     
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